University or Organization: Cambridge
Department: Computer laboratory
Rank of Job: Researcher
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Description:
Research Associate
Grade: RASS
Salary range: 18,265-27,339 pa
Limit of Tenure: Up to 36 months
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work on a
research project on rhetorical analysis, citation analysis and
summarisation. The project will study the interaction of natural
language understanding techniques and discourse effects empirically on
a large text corpus of scientific texts. In particular, machine
learning techniques will be used to recognize the orientation of a
citation context as contrastive (''negative'' or ''supportive''). The
project will also investigate robust methods for porting recognition
of cue phrases (''In this paper, we present...'') to new domains such
as bio-informatics.
Qualifications and experience required (as appropriate to the grade
and duties): Applicants should have a PhD (or equivalent experience)
in computational linguistics, computer science or a related
discipline, good programming skills (Java, C++ or perl), and knowledge
of statistical NLP techniques. Knowledge of internet technologies
would be an advantage.
Applicants should send a cover letter, full CV, the names and
addresses of three academic/professional referees and a form PD18
(available at:
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18/ )
by 13 June 2003
to:
Simone Teufel,
University of Cambridge,
Computer Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0FD.
For further information/job description, please email
Simone.Teufelcl.cam.ac.uk.
Closing date for applications: 13 June 2003
Proposed start date: 1 August 2003 or as soon as possible thereafter
Address for Applications:
Attn: Dr Simone Teufel
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
JJ Thomson Ave
Cambridge, CB3 0FD
United Kingdom
Applications are due by 13-Jun-2003
Contact Information:
Dr Simone Teufel
Email: Simone.Teufelcl.cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1223 763643
Website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk